the americas

The posthumous inflation of Ronald Reagan’s political achievement is also a covert critique of George W. Bush’s foreign-policy failures. But there are also deep continuities between the two administrations, says Godfrey Hodgson. Plus: Takashi Inoguchi on the US and Japan (archive)

What kind of radicalism can help turn protest against injustice into a coherent movement for a progressive global politics? Here, leading voices of different generations – Todd Gitlin (‘Letters to a Young Activist’) and George Monbiot (‘The Age of Consent’) – discuss activism, nationalism, violence, and world government in an interview with Anthony Barnett and Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy.

(This article was first published on 5 September 2003)

Burma's newly released leader is a beacon of her country's hunger to be free (archive)

In a return to the putrid nightmare of post-Katrina New Orleans, Jim Gabour learns the hard way about what is needed to keep on the right side of life. First published September 5th 2005. Updated August 24th 2010.

The Qur'an as training-manual in a war on unbelief. Plus: Omar al-Qattan tours Disneyland Islam, Murat Belge tracks the fundamentalist mind (archive)

The renowned UN envoy killed in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 outlines his vision of human rights 

The pre-Olympics Tlatelolco massacre forty years ago remains a site of struggle (archive)

The legal and human context of the US Supreme Court's landmark verdict (archive)

Havana's official dialogues and critical whispers reveal the revolution's flaws (archive)

Fidel is retiring. Cubans have lived with him for almost fifty years. How have they coped? (archive)

The Nobel peace laureate needs to deepen his thinking (archive)

When the levee breaks, it's a message for the world too (archive)

"Can the 'American dream' belong also to the world?" In August 2004, Richard Rorty, who died on 8 June, answered with reflections on imperialism and idealism

The belief in a military solution to the United States's predicament in Iraq underlies the Bush administration's rejection of the Baker-Hamilton commission's report, says Bob Burnett.

The White House welcome to Britain’s queen was in keeping with the character of his presidency, says Sidney Blumenthal.

The intimate connection between paramilitary groups, state-security institutions and politicians in Colombia is corroding the foundations of Álvaro Uribe’s rule, says Jenny Pearce.

New Orleans is still a city of tiny miracles. Jim Gabour has the proof.

A new phase of political confrontation in Washington touches the very constitutional foundations of United States government, says Bob Burnett.

The visit of the British queen to the United States highlights the merits of constitutional monarchy, says Godfrey Hodgson.

The shifting religious landscape of Brazil presents a major challenge of policy and empathy to the visiting conservative pope, says Rodrigo de Almeida.